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trifluoride

[ trahy-floor-ahyd, -flawr-, -flohr- ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trifluoride1

First recorded in 1840–50; tri- + fluoride
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Example Sentences

There are small deposits of such things as bromine trifluoride, but these have no great importance.

It sometimes appears combined with fluorine in chlorine trifluoride.

In it are dissolved varying quantities of metallic and non-metallic fluorides, such as boron trifluoride, sodium fluoride, etc.

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trifluoperazinetrifluorochloromethane